By R. C. Baker December 04, 2013

Norman Mailer once said that Marilyn Monroe "lived in a swamp of legends, lies, and factoids." The author coined the word "factoid," which he defined in an interview as "a fact which has no existence on earth other than that what's appeared in the newspaper and then gets repeated for ever after." Mailer may have first used the term in 1973, but factoids have been with us at least since... More >>>